MOUTHS: Sound piece, spoken word, beat and rhythm driven. Concrete sounds and what I believe to be a meowing cat are sampled throughout. The focus is on mouth sounds and unconventional ways of using the voice. Words, loops and noise that mediates on memory. In performances she uses props to partially hide herself, attempting to disassociate word from mouth and live from recorded. Milk moving through bodies, most likely recorded with a contact microphone. Use of repetitive words with the hypnotic percussion creates a highly engaging work.
She likes to see her work as sketches or ideas, synthesis between her writing and sound recording.
Words are angular sharp.
Many of the things being discussed and played directly link to my original thoughts regarding my audio paper and sound piece—-the use of words, the link to the arts (magic) and how we can manipulate the voice/language in a sound Arts practice.
Eating the Wallpaper Collapes the Sharp lines Kunstraum, 2019—A specialised piece in which the performers and speakers surround the audience, the performers are clothed in black whereas the audience are lit up with in a neon green colour. I particularly like this idea of surrounding the listener, making them the subject of the performance, it must create an extremely tense and surreal atmosphere. For my ritual sound piece I would like to experiment with performance in the future and play with the conventions of how a performance can be staged. Using the voice and position of performers as a quadrophonic, 5.1 or octophonic human sound system.
The act and ritual of carp fishing–something I have never considered before, the fishes are captured and given a singular narrative, documented, named and presented around the angling community. What do fishes especially Carp represent?
The Knot Commons 2021-three channel, spacial sound video performance-features three performers used as actors as well. The black hooded performers also ‘give a sense of ritual’, each performer having a different script, working in shifts resulting in a ever evolving performance if viewed throughout the entire day. The use of vocal sound and words is exceptional, each syllable adds the the rhythmic pulse of the piece.